Godfred Dame, the legal representative for the former NAFCO CEO Hanan Abdul-Wahab, has accused EOCO of defying court bail with a GH¢5m condition to detain his client.
According to Dame, Hanan Abdul-Wahab’s arrest is totally unfair, an abuse of power by the Attorney-General, EOCO and BNI, and a deliberate scheme to disobey the order of the High Court, Accra.
He alleged that EOCO has a ploy to keep their client in its custody, purported to impose conditions of bail in the sum of 5 Million Ghana Cedis with two sureties to be justified, even though he is already on a court-granted bail and is reporting fortnightly to EOCO.
In a press release issued by Dame & Partners, Lawyers for Hanan Abdul-Wahab, former Buffer Stock CEO, read, “The attention of the firm of Messrs. Dame & Partners has been drawn to a press statement issued by the Office of the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice on 7th July, 2026, purporting to further justify the unlawful arrest and detention of Mr. Hanan Abdul-Wahab (our client), on Saturday, 4th July, 2026, after he had been granted leave by the order of the High Court, Accra to travel to the United Kingdom.
The said press statement was fraught with grave misrepresentation of facts calculated to tarnish the reputation of our client and consistent with disparaging comments the Attorney-General frequently makes about our client at his press conferences and on social media. To protect our client’s hard-earned image, we draw attention to the following facts.
1. The allegation by the Attorney-General that he had filed an application to review the order granting our client leave to travel out of the jurisdiction as at yesterday, 7th July, 2026, was untrue. Our checks revealed that the Attorney-General proceeded to file the said application at the Registry of the Court only today, 8th July, 2026 at 1.30 pm.
2. All the allegations contained in the press statement of the Attorney-General are false and constitute a ploy “after the facts” to rationalise the unlawful arrest and detention of our client.
3. To date, our client has neither been charged nor put before a court of law on any of the allegations the Attorney-General made in his press statement.
4. Our client has not made any false or unlawful attempt to empty any frozen bank account. He considers a repetition of this allegation as part of the tendency of the Attorney-General to defame him. Our client has not been shown any evidence of any attempted withdrawal of funds by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) or the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) which arrested him.
5. Our client arrived at the Accra International Airport when he had neither withdrawn any money nor presented any cheque or document seeking to withdraw any money from the bank. We repeat our demand for the Attorney-General to produce evidence of a cheque, withdrawal note or any means by which our client attempted to withdraw money from his bank account, or the attempt to do so.
6. We repeat that in any event, there is no valid order of any court of competent jurisdiction freezing our client’s accounts since the earlier freezing orders made in respect of his earlier prosecution had lapsed.
7. Our client considers his arrest totally unfair, an abuse of power by the Attorney-General, EOCO and BNI, and a deliberate scheme to disobey the order of the High Court, Accra.
8. EOCO has, as a further ploy to keep our client in its custody, purported to impose conditions of bail in the sum of 5 Million Ghana Cedis with two sureties to be justified, even though he is already on a court-granted bail and is reporting fortnightly to EOCO. Our client deems these conditions outrageous, unreasonable and a ploy to further curtail his liberties since he is not in the position to meet them.
9. If the Attorney-General, EOCO and BNI will not release our client in spite of the false charges against him, he has expressed the resolve to remain in custody until the courts, the only institution he places his faith in, upholds his fundamental human rights. END!!!”
See the statement below:
